Vij books jun 2026 (31 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Arctic rewards the patient more than the powerful. In a region where cold, distance, and darkness make presence hard to sustain, smaller states can shape what larger ones attempt - and what they abandon as too costly, too visible, or too risky. Yet that influence is fragile: a single incident at sea, a misread exercise, or an infrastructure failure can turn routine governance into strategic crisis.The Polar Middle Powers explains how Norway, Canada, Denmark, and Finland 'punch above their weight' by building capability portfolios that convert limited resources into leverage. Instead of treating security as a question of ships and aircraft alone, Aksel Brevik shows how alliances, coast guards, research stations, connectivity, and institutional entrepreneurship interact to produce maritime domain awareness, credibility, and restraint. The book compares how each state chooses niches, how alliance positioning expands and constrains options, and why deterrence by denial often fits polar realities better than threats of punishment. It also examines the quieter instruments of arctic security governance: rules, standards, chairmanships, and the legitimacy that comes from doing the daily work of safety and enforcement in shared spaces.Written for students, general readers, and policy and security professionals, this is a guide to thinking clearly about influence under constraint. Readers will come away with a framework for judging which investments deliver real strategic effect, how escalation risks can be managed without illusion, and why the future of the High North will be decided as much by institutions and infrastructure as by headline deployments.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the Arctic, history has always been written by logistics: who can move, see, and endure when distance stretches supply lines and weather erases the horizon. Today, unmanned systems promise persistent presence across the High North, yet the same theatre that rewards reach also punishes dependence. When a drone is asked to fly through blowing snow, land in gusts, and report through intermittent links, its true capabilities are revealed not in demonstrations but in the slow arithmetic of failure, repair, and recovery.Drones in Whiteout argues that Arctic autonomy is primarily an engineering and sustainment challenge, not only a tactical one. It shows how cold-weather reliability is designed (or not) into materials, enclosures, and software behaviours; how sensor degradation turns perception into a probabilistic wager rather than a clear picture; how whiteout navigation exposes the brittleness of assumptions about maps, references, and GNSS integrity; and how communications loss forces hard choices about authority, transparency, and safe fallback modes. Across platform design, power management, testing, maintenance cycles, and operator rules, Jonas Merakai maps the tension between the promise of unmanned independence and the reality that autonomy still rests on fragile physical and organisational foundations.Written for students, general readers, and analysts who want a framework rather than a catalogue of gadgets, the book provides a disciplined way to evaluate autonomous systems by their control limits, recoverability, and operational sustainment. Readers will come away understanding why 'can it fly' is the wrong question in the Arctic, and why the decisive measure is whether a system can keep being useful when the environment and an intelligent adversary attack the same few dependencies again and again. 330 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 336 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 340 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Under the Arctic ice, the ocean becomes a distorted instrument: sound bends, surfaces vanish, and certainty is replaced by judgement. Yet this is where some of the most consequential missions in modern strategy take place, from deterrence patrols to intelligence collection. Submarines Under Ice explains why the polar theatre is not a simple contest of who is quieter or who has better sensors, but a managed confrontation with an environment that makes detection, navigation, and communication unreliable at the same time.Viktor Romcev offers a clear framework for thinking about operations where acoustic detection can be intermittent, under-ice navigation accumulates error, and communications can be delayed or one-way. The book shows how patrol patterns and basing shape what is feasible, why sonar performance depends on ice and oceanography rather than slogans, and how safety margins erode when missions demand proof of presence. It also faces the hardest practical truth: rescue under ice is slow, technically constrained, and politically sensitive, which changes how risks are taken long before anything goes wrong.Written for general readers, students, and analysts, Submarines Under Ice replaces cinematic assumptions with a disciplined view of constraints and consequences. Readers will come away understanding strategic deterrence as an operational practice, not an abstract doctrine, and seeing how escalation dynamics can be triggered by ambiguity: a lost contact, a close approach, an accident that cannot be quickly explained. In a domain where detection barely works, the most important question is often not what happened, but what others can credibly believe happened - and what they will do next. 314 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 346 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 350 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 326 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 310 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 342 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 326 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 272 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 358 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the early Cold War, planners learned that the shortest line between rivals often ran over the top of the world - and that the polar route's apparent simplicity concealed a demanding system of bases, procedures, and alerts. Today, as long-range bombers again feature in exercises and crises, the Arctic and North Atlantic are once more treated as the connective tissue of deterrence. Yet the central dilemma remains: the aircraft that symbolise reach depend on fragile enablers that can be watched, pressured, and disrupted.The Arctic Air Corridor argues that long-range air power is best understood through corridors: repeatable pathways made possible by permissions, support, and control. Jonas Hellqvist shows how aerial refuelling chains govern what can be flown, when, and for how long; why tanker vulnerability turns logistics into a strategic exposure; and how a2/ad systems reshape routing into a problem of geometry, warning time, and risk. He also examines airspace law and practice - FIRs, ADIZ expectations, and deconfliction routines - to show how safety procedures both reduce danger and create patterns that others can exploit. Across historical context and contemporary problem-sets, the book clarifies how corridor choices become messages: presence, restraint, ambiguity, and reassurance expressed through flight profiles as much as through statements.Written for students, general readers, and analysts, this is a framework-building study rather than a platform-by-platform catalogue. Readers will come away able to interpret deterrence signalling in operational terms: which corridors are being exercised, what the support picture implies, where predictability is structural rather than intentional, and how escalation control is practiced through timing, distance, and coordination. The result is a clearer way to judge what long-range deterrence can credibly do - and what it quietly depends upon when the route itself becomes contested. 340 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Greenland has repeatedly been treated as a place that matters most when others need it: a northern platform for transit and warning in the Second World War, a critical node in Cold War surveillance, and a quiet cornerstone of North Atlantic planning ever since. Yet Greenland is also a self-governing society with its own democratic debates about independence, development, and dignity. The strategic question is not whether Greenland is important, but how that importance is governed - and who gets to define the terms when security systems, investment proposals, and constitutional limits collide.Greenland's Balancing Act explains Greenland's predicament through the practical mechanics of power. It traces how defence basing agreements shape sovereignty beyond the headlines: through access clauses, oversight capacity, contracting rules, and the everyday asymmetries of information. It shows why infrastructure diplomacy is never just about runways and ports but about standards, ownership, and future bargaining room. It examines resource politics and external interest without reducing Greenland to a quarry or a chessboard, and it places domestic legitimacy - coalition constraints, consultation practices, and political memory - at the centre of strategic analysis.Written for general readers, students, and policy-facing analysts, the book offers a clear lens for judging competing claims about Arctic security and independence. Readers will come away understanding Greenland not as a passive object of great-power rivalry, but as an actor whose options are real yet bounded - and whose most consequential choices often arrive disguised as technical upgrades, funding packages, or administrative procedures. Above all, it reframes sovereignty as sovereignty in practice: the tangible ability to control infrastructure, information, and risk in a world where strategic attention rarely comes without strings. 336 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In northern waters, power is rarely expressed through warships alone. It is expressed through denials of entry, refusals of cover, missing signatures, and delayed payments - the quiet mechanics that decide whether a cargo moves or stalls. As trade routes extend into colder, more remote seas, sanctions enforcement faces a contradiction: fewer ports and specialised services can create sharper choke points, yet distance and harsh conditions can also make concealment easier and verification slower.The Northern Sanctions Playbook explains how maritime sanctions actually work when a voyage depends on registries, insurers, classification, bunkering, repairs, and banks - and how each dependency can be tightened or bypassed. Rayan Veldaskar traces the operational pathways of enforcement: the leverage of port state control, the incentives behind a flag of convenience, the investigative challenge of beneficial ownership, and the role of transhipment and ship-to-ship transfer in obscuring cargo histories. Instead of treating sanctions as a list of prohibitions, the book treats them as an interconnected system of institutions that produce evidence, distribute risk, and impose friction.Written for students of international affairs, analysts, maritime professionals, and general readers who want more than headlines, it offers a practical framework for judging what is feasible, what is merely performative, and what costs are pushed onto allies and neutral carriers. Readers finish with a clearer sense of where enforcement power truly sits in modern shipping, how evasion networks learn and adapt, and why the defining contest in cold-water sanctions is often not intent, but proof. 300 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Under the Arctic ice, the ocean becomes a distorted instrument: sound bends, surfaces vanish, and certainty is replaced by judgement. Yet this is where some of the most consequential missions in modern strategy take place, from deterrence patrols to intelligence collection. Submarines Under Ice explains why the polar theatre is not a simple contest of who is quieter or who has better sensors, but a managed confrontation with an environment that makes detection, navigation, and communication unreliable at the same time.Viktor Romcev offers a clear framework for thinking about operations where acoustic detection can be intermittent, under-ice navigation accumulates error, and communications can be delayed or one-way. The book shows how patrol patterns and basing shape what is feasible, why sonar performance depends on ice and oceanography rather than slogans, and how safety margins erode when missions demand proof of presence. It also faces the hardest practical truth: rescue under ice is slow, technically constrained, and politically sensitive, which changes how risks are taken long before anything goes wrong.Written for general readers, students, and analysts, Submarines Under Ice replaces cinematic assumptions with a disciplined view of constraints and consequences. Readers will come away understanding strategic deterrence as an operational practice, not an abstract doctrine, and seeing how escalation dynamics can be triggered by ambiguity: a lost contact, a close approach, an accident that cannot be quickly explained. In a domain where detection barely works, the most important question is often not what happened, but what others can credibly believe happened - and what they will do next. 314 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the Arctic, history has always been written by logistics: who can move, see, and endure when distance stretches supply lines and weather erases the horizon. Today, unmanned systems promise persistent presence across the High North, yet the same theatre that rewards reach also punishes dependence. When a drone is asked to fly through blowing snow, land in gusts, and report through intermittent links, its true capabilities are revealed not in demonstrations but in the slow arithmetic of failure, repair, and recovery.Drones in Whiteout argues that Arctic autonomy is primarily an engineering and sustainment challenge, not only a tactical one. It shows how cold-weather reliability is designed (or not) into materials, enclosures, and software behaviours; how sensor degradation turns perception into a probabilistic wager rather than a clear picture; how whiteout navigation exposes the brittleness of assumptions about maps, references, and GNSS integrity; and how communications loss forces hard choices about authority, transparency, and safe fallback modes. Across platform design, power management, testing, maintenance cycles, and operator rules, Jonas Merakai maps the tension between the promise of unmanned independence and the reality that autonomy still rests on fragile physical and organisational foundations.Written for students, general readers, and analysts who want a framework rather than a catalogue of gadgets, the book provides a disciplined way to evaluate autonomous systems by their control limits, recoverability, and operational sustainment. Readers will come away understanding why 'can it fly' is the wrong question in the Arctic, and why the decisive measure is whether a system can keep being useful when the environment and an intelligent adversary attack the same few dependencies again and again. 330 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the far north, weather does not merely disrupt plans; it rewrites them, sometimes fast enough to change what opponents think they are seeing. From early polar exploration and Cold War-era basing to today's renewed interest in Arctic access, the enduring problem has been the same: operations depend on prediction, yet the Arctic is where prediction is hardest and where error is most consequential. The result is a quiet contest over timing, access, and exposure, in which a 'good enough' forecast can be a tactical edge and a confident forecast can be a trap.Weather as Weapon, Forecast as Advantage explains how Arctic weather forecasting shapes military planning beyond safety considerations. It shows why forecast uncertainty must be read through the lens of the decision it serves, the time available to adjust, and the fragility of the information chain. Moving from sensing networks and model limits to command judgement and replanning costs, the book traces how forecasts enter decision cycles for aviation, maritime routing, over-ice movement, and resupply. It also examines how adversaries can exploit dependence on prediction: targeting observations, leveraging masking conditions, and anticipating predictable mobility windows that planners treat as rare opportunities.Written for students, general readers, and analysts of strategy and security, the book provides a practical framework for linking prediction quality to planning choices, risk hedges, and operational tempo. Readers finish with a sharper sense of which kinds of forecasts matter most for which missions, how uncertainty should be communicated and stress-tested, and why the most decisive advantage is often not better weather knowledge in the abstract, but better organisational use of imperfect knowledge under competition. 326 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the North, fish are on the move while borders remain fixed. As warming seas redraw where and when valuable stocks can be caught, the Arctic is becoming a frontier not of discovery but of governance: a place where quota bargains age quickly, where enforcement must work at extreme distance, and where minor incidents at sea can harden into diplomatic disputes. The Fisheries Frontier explains why this is happening and how to analyse it without defaulting to either alarmism or complacency.Maren Ostergaard follows the chain that links ecology to conflict: stock migration upends allocation formulas; quota politics turns scientific uncertainty into a struggle over legitimacy; and maritime surveillance reveals as much about what cannot be proven as what can. The book shows how 'grey' fleets exploit seams between jurisdictions, how monitoring technologies create new verification battles, and why enforcement is an information pipeline as much as a matter of patrol vessels. It also brings ports and markets into the picture, explaining how port state measures and traceability rules can sometimes shift incentives more effectively than distant interdiction.Written for students, general readers, and policy and security audiences, The Fisheries Frontier offers a durable framework for evaluating risk in contested fisheries. Readers will come away understanding Arctic disputes as structured problems of capacity, incentives, and visibility - and recognising what stable governance looks like when the resource itself refuses to stay in place. 298 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In June 1940, with France defeated and the Channel suddenly a frontier rather than a corridor, Britain faced a question its strategic doctrine had never been built to answer. Continuing the war alone was a choice, not a foregone conclusion, and that choice had to be remade daily across cabinet rooms, broadcasting studios, embassies, and dockyards. This book reconstructs how Britain's lone stand was assembled, sustained, and projected outward through the second half of 1940 and into the spring of 1941. It treats Churchill not as a solitary voice of defiance but as the coordinator of an improvised political system whose survival depended on aligning rhetoric, policy, and diplomacy under acute scarcity.The analysis moves across the principal arenas of decision: the May War Cabinet debate over negotiated terms, the rupture with France and the action at Mers-el-Kebir, the architecture of the 1940 speeches, the courtship of Roosevelt's Washington, the management of dominion politics, and the engagement of neutrals from Madrid to Moscow. Throughout, the book treats wartime leadership as the disciplined coordination of morale, policy, and external relations rather than as personal charisma. Churchill diplomacy appears here as a layered craft conducted through formal channels, private correspondence, and public address simultaneously. Strategic communication is read as policy work, and resource diplomacy is shown to be the indispensable infrastructure beneath every rhetorical flourish.Written for general readers, students of history and international affairs, and analysts interested in how states behave under strategic isolation, the book offers a period synthesis grounded in the institutional realities of 1940 rather than in retrospective myth. Readers will come away with a clearer sense of how contingent Britain's continued belligerence actually was, how the gap between bleak reality and public confidence was managed, and how the choices of a small group of officials shaped the conditions under which a wider coalition eventually became possible. The result is both a focused history of a decisive year and a durable framework for thinking about leadership in moments when the available options are narrow, the costs of error are immediate, and the stakes extend well beyond the immediate horizon. 272 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Arctic rewards the patient more than the powerful. In a region where cold, distance, and darkness make presence hard to sustain, smaller states can shape what larger ones attempt - and what they abandon as too costly, too visible, or too risky. Yet that influence is fragile: a single incident at sea, a misread exercise, or an infrastructure failure can turn routine governance into strategic crisis.The Polar Middle Powers explains how Norway, Canada, Denmark, and Finland 'punch above their weight' by building capability portfolios that convert limited resources into leverage. Instead of treating security as a question of ships and aircraft alone, Aksel Brevik shows how alliances, coast guards, research stations, connectivity, and institutional entrepreneurship interact to produce maritime domain awareness, credibility, and restraint. The book compares how each state chooses niches, how alliance positioning expands and constrains options, and why deterrence by denial often fits polar realities better than threats of punishment. It also examines the quieter instruments of arctic security governance: rules, standards, chairmanships, and the legitimacy that comes from doing the daily work of safety and enforcement in shared spaces.Written for students, general readers, and policy and security professionals, this is a guide to thinking clearly about influence under constraint. Readers will come away with a framework for judging which investments deliver real strategic effect, how escalation risks can be managed without illusion, and why the future of the High North will be decided as much by institutions and infrastructure as by headline deployments. 350 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In September 1940, the foreign ministers of Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a treaty meant to redraw the map of the world. Five years later, two of the signatories had been crushed by force of arms and the third had quietly turned its back on the others. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact was the twentieth century's most ideologically loud and operationally hollow alliance, and the gap between its rhetoric and its results remains one of the most instructive puzzles in modern history. This book sets out to explain that gap with analytic precision and historical care.Axis Diplomacy reframes the alliance as an institution rather than a slogan. It examines what the partners actually committed to in the pact text, how their liaison channels and intelligence services worked in practice, why theatre prioritisation drove them apart, and how diplomatic signalling masked deep mistrust. Drawing on the concepts of alliance theory and the discipline of wartime diplomacy, the chapters move from the origins of the Anti-Comintern arrangements through Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, the Mediterranean campaigns, the Italian armistice, and the lonely submarine cables of 1944-1945. Throughout, the book attends to the unglamorous mechanics of military liaison, raw material exchange, and code-room compartmentalisation - the practical infrastructure on which any coalition rises or falls.The book is written for general readers curious about how alliances really work, for students of history and international relations, and for policy audiences who recognise that present-day coalitions face structurally similar challenges of information, incentives, and trust. Without forcing parallels, it offers a portable framework for diagnosing coordination failure in any partnership operating under pressure. Readers will come away with a clearer sense of why the Axis behaved as it did, why its members fought what amounted to separate wars under a common name, and why the language of unity so often outruns the architecture beneath it. The result is a synthesis that treats the past with seriousness and the reader with respect, restoring to the study of alliances the analytic rigour the subject has long deserved. 288 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -When trust collapses, the Arctic does not become ungoverned - it becomes governed differently. In a region where distance and weather punish delay, states and operators still have to co-ordinate search and rescue, manage shipping risks, and respond to environmental emergencies. Yet the political venues that once bundled these tasks into a recognisable system can lose legitimacy, freeze, or fragment, leaving essential functions to be rebuilt through narrower and more brittle arrangements.After the Council offers a clear framework for analysing this shift. Igor Danilets treats Arctic governance as a set of functions that can be substituted: replaced by bilateral bargaining, minilateral clubs, or narrowly scoped technical agreements designed to survive political chill. Across concrete domains - search and rescue co-ordination, environmental monitoring, shipping standards, and scientific data exchange - the book shows what substitution can achieve and where it fails. It also explains why verification and compliance monitoring become harder precisely when they are most needed, and how gaps in routine coordination can turn ordinary incidents into strategic signals.Written for students, policy audiences, and serious general readers, the book's central contribution is a way to think about minimum co-operation without romanticising co-operation itself. Readers will come away able to evaluate which forms of risk reduction mechanisms are realistic under mistrust, how to spot the most dangerous governance blind spots, and why escalation prevention in the Arctic often depends less on grand bargains than on credible procedures, shared metrics, and communication habits that still function on the worst day. 310 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the Arctic, territory can be pursued without a single shot - not because conflict has vanished, but because it is often routed into paperwork, procedure, and proof. As coastlines are re-read through maritime law and seabed geology becomes a legal argument, states increasingly compete by filing claims, challenging jurisdiction, and shaping the terms on which a dispute can be decided. The result is a theatre of influence where victory is measured in recommendations, rulings, and implementation pathways as much as in patrol routes or headlines.Lawfare on Thin Ice explains how this contest works from the inside out. It shows why forum selection is never a technical afterthought, how governments build evidentiary records that can survive scrutiny, and why treaty interpretation often turns on narrative choices as much as textual ones. Moving across courts, tribunals, commissions, and diplomatic bargaining, the book traces the constraints that make legal strategy potent but incomplete: uncertain science, contested jurisdiction, and the persistent question of what makes states comply when they would rather not. Along the way, it clarifies how international adjudication can lower risk by creating procedures and off-ramps - and how it can raise risk when interim measures, public rhetoric, or maximalist positions narrow the space for compromise.Written for students, general readers, and policy-facing analysts, the book offers a practical lens for reading Arctic disputes as strategic action with clear limits. Readers will come away able to ask sharper questions of any new claim or case: What evidence is being prepared, and for which forum What would implementation require politically, not just legally And how might a legal move interact with escalation management rather than substituting for it The Arctic may be cold, but the contest over rules, authority, and compliance is already heating up. 326 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -For most of modern history, strategic planning has assumed that territory is stable, seasons are reliable, and the future arrives gradually enough for institutions to adapt. Methane-related feedbacks challenge those assumptions. They introduce the possibility that warming dynamics can accelerate, that once-trusted ground can become unreliable, and that emergencies can compound faster than public systems can learn. In that environment, 'climate' stops being a background condition and becomes a stress test of governance itself.The Methane Security Problem reframes methane feedbacks as a planning variable with direct implications for stability and preparedness. Imani Z. Okere links the science-facing language of feedback to the institutional realities that determine outcomes: procurement tempo, maintenance backlogs, interagency mandates, and the credibility of public communication. Moving from the Arctic to other exposed settings, the book examines permafrost thaw and infrastructure exposure, disaster response amid compound events, and how critical infrastructure risk cascades rather than fails in a single event. It also treats migration and displacement as capacity challenges shaped by housing, services, and legitimacy, not as slogans.Written for students, policy audiences, and readers of geopolitics who want analytical clarity without false certainty, the book offers tools for thinking under deep uncertainty. Okere shows why short political and budget cycles repeatedly collide with long-horizon risk, and how adaptive governance often breaks at the seams: between agencies, across levels of government, and between data and decision rights. Readers will finish with a sharper understanding of where states are brittle, how risk is silently priced into infrastructure and finance, and what it means to plan responsibly when the most strategic threats are not always intentional, visible, or precisely timed. 342 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Across the Arctic, the most decisive strategic contests are not only between rival states but within states themselves: between national projects that promise security and prosperity, and northern communities whose rights and institutions determine what can actually be built. Airfields, ports, roads, mines, and communications sites may look like engineering feats from afar, yet on the ground they are legitimacy projects, dependent on authority that is shared, negotiated, and sometimes withheld. As Arctic competition intensifies, the question that quietly governs outcomes is not simply where a state wants to go, but who must agree for it to stay.Indigenous Power in the New World Order explains how Indigenous political power operates as a strategic factor in Arctic state behaviour. Aksel Brevik shows how land claims agreements and governance structures translate into concrete leverage over infrastructure siting, permitting, monitoring, and operational rules. Through comparative analysis of consent dynamics and co-governance institutions, the book clarifies why procedural consultation often fails, how communities convert rights into bargaining power, and how states respond when consent is contested. It also examines co-management regimes as a form of governance infrastructure: institutions that can stabilise development and security presence when they are properly mandated, resourced, and trusted.Written for students, analysts, policy audiences, and general readers of geopolitics, the book offers a durable framework for understanding Arctic strategy through strategic legitimacy and local decision authority. Readers will come away able to assess when a project is likely to endure, why some agreements produce long-term governability while others unravel, and how partnership models can align national aims with local security and cultural continuity. The result is a clearer view of the Arctic not as an empty chessboard, but as a politically dense region where the future is negotiated - and where power is often closer to home than strategy documents admit. 346 pp. Englisch.…